Jarrett Jack missed the last game so we'll need him back. Luckily Greiviz 'bodily-harm' Vasquez has been playing well in his absence.

They have also been benching Kaman due to trade-winds, but again rather fortuitously for us he will be back in action tonight.

I'm predicting a big game from Carl Landry as he hopes to emulate other PF's who have had season-best games against the Pistons.

DaJuan Summers has started the last 2 games at SG for the Hornets but only played 12 and 15 minutes in each game. The odds of him making us look stupid for letting him go are pretty small, but let's hope for one night he unleashes whatever bottled up motivation he has against the Pistons.

Keep an eye out for Gustavo Ayon, the Mexican big man who provides energy off the bench in limited minutes. I'm already a small fan.

2 of the leagues 4 worst teams got together and this one was closer than it should have been as BKnight went down in the first quarter with a broken nose delivered inadvertently by former Piston Dujuan Summers.

The Pistons prevailed despite the loss of Knight as Walker D and Stuckey held it together down the stretch and max delivered a couple of monster dunks in the last 90 seconds to punctuate the win even though the Hornets closed out the game on a 7-2 run in the last 30 seconds, but the clock ran on them. Another strong game by Monroe, who I assume will be named to Rising Stars (Rookie/Sophmore All-star squad) later this month.

Two game win streak and more importantly with the next game on Wednesday, the Pistons literaly will go a whole week without a loss......and even more importantly they should be able to squeeze in some practices next week.

Didn't catch the game as the folks were in town, but happy to see they got the win. Not half as much fun playing the ESPN draft machine though, took me like 7 tries to get the number 1 and Mr. Unibrow when I needed only 2 tries to get it before.
Read about Frank saying Knight wanted to come back in the game even with the broken nose as well; tough kid.